Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-01-14

A remarkable dream was related
by Rev. X. ID. Grafton IN the per
sonal knowledge of Rev. Mr.. Greg
ory, both well known ministers IN
Texas. In Denton county, some
years since, a gentleman was sick
enough to require some attention
at night. No one thought the SICK
man dangerously Ill. y friend sat
with him till midnight, giving
medicine. The sick man resting
comfortably and no more to be done
by direction of the physicians, the
watcher, getting drOwsy, leaned his
chair against the foot of the bed
and feel asleep. lie dreamed he
saw the soul Of the sick friend
come out of his mouth, get on the
floor, 90 behind a chair, try to hide
behind another, then behind the
wardrobe, finally crouch by the
fireplace. The devil entered the
room and followed the soul in every
step it had taken, behind the chairs,
wardrobe, then before 1t, at the
fireplace, when the soul gave a
piercing shrek and awOke the
sleeker to find his sick friend dead .
A man dead whom no one expected
to die
This was related to show the
communication between the soul in
the body and that of one in the
other world. or departing. Is this
true ? | do not think the question
can be answered in the Affirmative
with such proof as offered in the
occurrence related or any OF a
similar nature. | affirm that the
sleeping man was awakened by the
scream of his dying friend or some
other noise, if any, and that the
dream may have occupied only the
fractional part of second. The
sleeper may have had this disiem-
pered dream and awakened from
an uncomfortable position in his
chair TO fiud his friend dead. lie
went to sleep rejecting on sickness,
possibly death. The two thoughts
are almost if not quite inseparable.
THINKING DURING SLEEP.
Dreaming is thinking during
sleep. Lord Brougham probably
/ devoted more attention in a learn.
ed, scientific way to the study. Of
dreams than any other writer worth
mentioning, though many distin.
/ guished scholars have thought and
written much on the same subject.
A writer puss the matter tersely
thus "Drcams have, In all ages and
countries. been believed in as indi-
cations of the future, and all forms
of superstition, this is, perhaps,
the most excusable.' Lord Brough-
am said all our dreams occur either
lust as we go to sleep or as we
wake. In the main this is correct,
bot it is established that there are
exceptions. l believe the sleeper
who awakened to find his friend
dead dreamed as he awOke. He
may not have slept more than a
second. Sir Benjamin Br0dle re-.
lates of Lord Holland: "On one
occasion when he was fdtlgued,
while listening to friend reading
aloud, he fell asleep, and had a
dream, the particulars Of which II
would have occupied him a quarter
of an hour or longer to express III
writing. After he awOke he found
that he remembered the beginning
of one sentence, while he actually
heard the latter part of the sen
tence Immediately following it, so
that probably the whole time dur
ing which he slept did not occupy
more than a few seconds"
Last summer, where | now write,
| was engaged. An easy going
loaler came in. l continued to read
or write. He placed his chaiI
against the wall and Tell asleep.
accidentally knocked book of
the table. lie jumped nearly out
of his chair and thanked me for
awaking him from a troubled dream
in which he was engaged in a fight
A pistol shot had just been fired
be said. This man had been in
q volved IN his ungOverned passion
in a petty quarrel. lie was brood
! ing over it expected to shoot some
one or get shot. Had told me a
. short time before. The noise oi
the falling book caused him tC
dream of tho fight with pistols
also awakened him from a dream
, that seemed to him to extend oveI
considerable time. knew it wai
only the fractional part Of sec
Ond.
COLERIDGE's "KUBLA KHAN"
COleridge's "huDla hhan' wa
= a fragment of 200 or 800 line'
that he dreamed after reading II
his chair: "IIere the Khan Kubla
? commanded a palace to be built
etc. Tartini composed the "Devil'
SonataD while dreaming. If it II
objected that all this could not b
+ done in the fractional part OF
J, second of time, | would answer
: What is the experience OF hin
q whose life Is suddenly imperiled
. A "fash" Of the mind illumine
1 the whole life that is past.
y thought would be killed by
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